内置的timeit模块在IPython命令行中工作得最好。

为模块内的函数计时:

from timeit import default_timer as timer
import sys

def timefunc(func, *args, **kwargs):
    """Time a function. 

    args:
        iterations=3

    Usage example:
        timeit(myfunc, 1, b=2)
    """
    try:
        iterations = kwargs.pop('iterations')
    except KeyError:
        iterations = 3
    elapsed = sys.maxsize
    for _ in range(iterations):
        start = timer()
        result = func(*args, **kwargs)
        elapsed = min(timer() - start, elapsed)
    print(('Best of {} {}(): {:.9f}'.format(iterations, func.__name__, elapsed)))
    return result

我告诉你一个秘密:使用timeit的最好方法是在命令行上。

在命令行上，timeit执行适当的统计分析:它告诉您最短的运行花费了多长时间。这很好，因为所有的时间误差都是正的。所以最短的时间误差最小。没有办法得到负错误，因为计算机的计算速度永远不会超过它的计算速度!

那么，命令行界面:

%~> python -m timeit "1 + 2"
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0468 usec per loop

这很简单，是吧?

你可以设置:

%~> python -m timeit -s "x = range(10000)" "sum(x)"
1000 loops, best of 3: 543 usec per loop

这也很有用!

如果你想要多行，你可以使用shell的自动延续或者使用单独的参数:

%~> python -m timeit -s "x = range(10000)" -s "y = range(100)" "sum(x)" "min(y)"
1000 loops, best of 3: 554 usec per loop

这给出了一个

x = range(1000)
y = range(100)

和时间

sum(x)
min(y)

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如果你想要更长的脚本，你可能会倾向于在Python脚本中计时。我建议避免这样做，因为在命令行上进行分析和计时会更好。相反，我倾向于编写shell脚本:

 SETUP="

 ... # lots of stuff

 "

 echo Minmod arr1
 python -m timeit -s "$SETUP" "Minmod(arr1)"

 echo pure_minmod arr1
 python -m timeit -s "$SETUP" "pure_minmod(arr1)"

 echo better_minmod arr1
 python -m timeit -s "$SETUP" "better_minmod(arr1)"

 ... etc

由于多次初始化，这可能需要更长的时间，但通常这不是一个大问题。

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但是如果你想在你的模块中使用timeit呢?

那么，最简单的方法就是:

def function(...):
    ...

timeit.Timer(function).timeit(number=NUMBER)

这给了您运行该次数的累计时间(不是最小时间!)。

为了得到一个好的分析，使用.repeat并取最小值:

min(timeit.Timer(function).repeat(repeat=REPEATS, number=NUMBER))

您通常应该将其与functools结合使用。用Partial代替lambda:…降低开销。因此，你可以有这样的东西:

from functools import partial

def to_time(items):
    ...

test_items = [1, 2, 3] * 100
times = timeit.Timer(partial(to_time, test_items)).repeat(3, 1000)

# Divide by the number of repeats
time_taken = min(times) / 1000

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你还可以:

timeit.timeit("...", setup="from __main__ import ...", number=NUMBER)

这将使您更接近命令行中的接口，但不那么酷。"from __main__ import…"允许你在timeit创建的人工环境中使用主模块中的代码。

值得注意的是，这是Timer(…).timeit(…)的方便包装，因此在计时方面不是特别好。我个人更喜欢使用Timer(…).repeat(…)，就像我上面展示的那样。

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警告

有一些关于时间的警告无处不在。

Overhead is not accounted for. Say you want to time x += 1, to find out how long addition takes: >>> python -m timeit -s "x = 0" "x += 1" 10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0476 usec per loop Well, it's not 0.0476 µs. You only know that it's less than that. All error is positive. So try and find pure overhead: >>> python -m timeit -s "x = 0" "" 100000000 loops, best of 3: 0.014 usec per loop That's a good 30% overhead just from timing! This can massively skew relative timings. But you only really cared about the adding timings; the look-up timings for x also need to be included in overhead: >>> python -m timeit -s "x = 0" "x" 100000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0166 usec per loop The difference isn't much larger, but it's there. Mutating methods are dangerous. >>> python -m timeit -s "x = [0]*100000" "while x: x.pop()" 10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0436 usec per loop But that's completely wrong! x is the empty list after the first iteration. You'll need to reinitialize: >>> python -m timeit "x = [0]*100000" "while x: x.pop()" 100 loops, best of 3: 9.79 msec per loop But then you have lots of overhead. Account for that separately. >>> python -m timeit "x = [0]*100000" 1000 loops, best of 3: 261 usec per loop Note that subtracting the overhead is reasonable here only because the overhead is a small-ish fraction of the time. For your example, it's worth noting that both Insertion Sort and Tim Sort have completely unusual timing behaviours for already-sorted lists. This means you will require a random.shuffle between sorts if you want to avoid wrecking your timings.

内置的timeit模块在IPython命令行中工作得最好。

为模块内的函数计时:

from timeit import default_timer as timer
import sys

def timefunc(func, *args, **kwargs):
    """Time a function. 

    args:
        iterations=3

    Usage example:
        timeit(myfunc, 1, b=2)
    """
    try:
        iterations = kwargs.pop('iterations')
    except KeyError:
        iterations = 3
    elapsed = sys.maxsize
    for _ in range(iterations):
        start = timer()
        result = func(*args, **kwargs)
        elapsed = min(timer() - start, elapsed)
    print(('Best of {} {}(): {:.9f}'.format(iterations, func.__name__, elapsed)))
    return result

您将创建两个函数，然后运行与此类似的程序。 注意，您希望选择相同的执行/运行数来比较apple和apple。 这是在Python 3.7下测试的。

下面是便于复制的代码

!/usr/local/bin/python3
import timeit

def fibonacci(n):
    """
    Returns the n-th Fibonacci number.
    """
    if(n == 0):
        result = 0
    elif(n == 1):
        result = 1
    else:
        result = fibonacci(n-1) + fibonacci(n-2)
    return result

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import timeit
    t1 = timeit.Timer("fibonacci(13)", "from __main__ import fibonacci")
    print("fibonacci ran:",t1.timeit(number=1000), "milliseconds")

如果你想快速比较两个代码/函数块，你可以这样做:

import timeit

start_time = timeit.default_timer()
func1()
print(timeit.default_timer() - start_time)

start_time = timeit.default_timer()
func2()
print(timeit.default_timer() - start_time)

我发现使用timeit最简单的方法是从命令行:

鉴于test.py:

def InsertionSort(): ...
def TimSort(): ...

像这样运行timeit:

% python -mtimeit -s'import test' 'test.InsertionSort()'
% python -mtimeit -s'import test' 'test.TimSort()'